In addition, 55 percent of patients and 52 percent of health professionals demand an improvement in access to psychological care and specialists in podiatry and ophthalmology specialized in diabetes, since, according to the vice president of the Spanish Federation ofAssociations of Educators in Diabetes (FEAED) and also a member of the OSD Committee, Dolores Abellán, "many times people with diabetes do not have the necessary means to go to these specialists who are of great help for the control of their illness."
Regarding the quality of life, 65 percent of patients with type 1 diabetesThey consider false that they enjoy less than life, although, those of type 2, do believe that their illness limits their day to day.Finally, although more than half of the people with diabetes do not belong to any association or representative entity, 51 percent of respondents see great advantages in being part of any of these organizations.
Diabetes is a "behavioral disease": habits that cannot be changed, usual and repetitive behaviors, responses to social pressure situations, anxiety, resistance to failure ... and all the etc we want. As long as patients are not formed in this type of requirements there will always be a huge hole in patient care with diabetes.
In this regard, the coordinator of the Diabetes Working Group of the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (SEMFYC), and member of the OSD Scientific Committee, the Álvarez de Guisasola, affirms that "all the modifications of conduct and behavior andof people's lifestyle are difficult to get and are complicated. " It has fascinated us ... and much more difficult if those who try to do are ignorant in psychology or those who with a 75 -hour curs in behavioral psychology are already believed with sufficient authority ... if we already discuss the formation and ability of manyEndocrine about diabetes, in psychology we don't even talk ...
"It is necessary to have a diabetological formation that is regulated and continuous. It is not worth a master class of a doctor or educator and that is not repeated again in three years," says Ángel Cabrera, president of the Federation ofSpanish diabetics (Fede) and member of the OSD scientific committee. Well, look that I would swear that the talk is just what this character is promoting throughout Spain ... in exchange for varied remuneration, of course.
